D.N. McIntosh

Daniel Newnan McIntosh (20 September 1822-10 April 1896) was a Creek soldier in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Daniel Newnan McIntosh was born in Indian Springs, Georgia in 1822 to a Muscogee Native American family, the youngest son of Chief William McIntosh. He became one of the leaders of the Muscogee tribe and became a Baptist preacher in 1850. When the American Civil War broke out, McIntosh beceame colonel of the 1st Creek Mounted Volunteers in the Confederate States Army, with eight family members serving him. He fought against the Union in several operations to control the Indian Territory, ranging from Round Mountain on 19 November 1861 to Cabin Creek on 2 July 1863. On 23 June 1865, his unit was one of the regiments to surrender alongside Stand Watie at Doaksville in the Choctaw lands, and he was a delegate to the signing of the 1866 Creek treaty. He would serve as a tribal delegate to Washington DC on numerous occasions, and he lived as a farmer, stockman, and landholder until his death in 1896 at the age of 73.